Ha-ʻEsrim arbʻa.

Accession number: 
PML 21590
Uniform title: 
Bible. Hebrew. 1488.
Published: 
[Soncino] : Avraham Y.Z.Y.Y.A. b. K.M.R. Ḥayim [for] Yehoshuʻa Shelomoh ben Yisrael Natan, 11 la-ḥodesh Iyar shenat 248 [22 April 1488].
Description: 
4 parts ([100], [14], [176], [94] leaves) ; 32 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1922.
Notes: 

Title and imprint from colophon, part I, leaf [13]/6v: Ṿe-tashlem melekhet ʻavodat ha-kodesh ha-ʻEsrim arbʻa be-shelemut asher heḥavim le-harbits Torah be-Yisrael. Ha-mefoʼar K.M.R. Yehoshuʻa Shelomoh Y.Z.Y.Y.A. b. K.M.R. he-ḥakham ha-kolel Yisrael Natan Y.Sh.R.Ṿ. Ha-yom yom shelishi, be-eḥad ʻaśar la-ḥodesh Iyar shenat 248 le-ferat ḳatan al yad ha-tsaʻir me-meshpaḥto ha-oman ha-meḥoḳeḳ Avraham Y.Z.Y.Y.A. b. K.M.R. Ḥayim zal min ha-tsevoʻim me-erets Pisiro hadar be-Bolonyah. Neḥaḳaḳ be-Sontsino.
Printed by Abraham ben Ḥayim dei Tintori for Joshua Solomon Soncino.
Printed in Soncino's types 1:240H and 2:135H (6:136H in BMC).
PML Checklist has pub. date: "23 Feb. 1488."
Signatures: part I: 1-7⁸ 8⁶ 9-12⁸ 13⁶: 100 leaves, leaf 8/6 blank; part II: ²1⁸ ²2⁶: 14 leaves, leaf ²2/6 blank; part III: ³1⁸ ³2⁶ ³3-22⁸ ³23²: 176 leaves, leaf ³23/2 blank; part IV: ⁴1-⁴2⁸ ⁴3-⁴4¹⁰ ⁴5-⁴10⁸ ⁴11¹⁰: 94 leaves, leaf ⁴5/8 blank. 384 leaves in total.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcut intials and borders.
With vocalization and accents.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.8 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy has part II (Megillot, leaves ²1⁸ ²2⁶) bound in part IV after Job (after leaf ⁴5/8).

Binding: 
20th-century 1/2 black goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (32 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; red edges.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title: Biblia Hebraica

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary marginal Hebrew notations (keywords) sporadically throughout text. Contemporary notations in Latin (leaves 4/1r, ³12/4r, and ⁴3/4r).

Provenance: 
Wilfrid M. Habdank Voynich (1865-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Voynich, March 1922.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books